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Our Nottingham, Leicester, Sheffield and Leeds Clinical Negligence team is headed by the nationally rated partner Jane Williams who has over 29 years’ experience conducting high value, complex claims. The team are a pre-eminent force consolidating the firm’s reputation not only as a regional but also national heavyweight. The team continue to excel and expand with Katy Barnett joining on qualification in March this year.
The team are known for their depth and breadth of experience in catastrophic injury claims, delay in diagnosis and misdiagnosis of cancer and other conditions, surgical errors, incorrect treatment and Inquests.
Jane Williams continues to attract high quality instructions cementing the team’s reputation as a leading force in this area as is demonstrated by the work highlights. The team has seen continued growth in their work with a new group action in the last twelve months. The team have received an increasing number of clients as a result of the Maternity Services scandal at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. The claims range from maternal injuries, stillbirths, birth injury claims and neonatal deaths.
We believe we remain a pre-eminent team in the East Midlands region and leading player in the national field.
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Their communication is excellent and the depth in the team means that there is always someone there to pick things up.
It's clear when working with the clinical negligence team at Freeths that they truly care about their clients.
Always very quick to respond and keep me informed at all stages.
I found all of the team brilliant, not just my lawyer, but all of the support staff.
The team was just excellent at all levels and their approach was very professional, and we were kept informed and engaged throughout the process.
Their communication is excellent and the depth in the team means that there is always someone there to pick things up.
It's clear when working with the clinical negligence team at Freeths that they truly care about their clients.
Always very quick to respond and keep me informed at all stages.
I found all of the team brilliant, not just my lawyer, but all of the support staff.
The team was just excellent at all levels and their approach was very professional, and we were kept informed and engaged throughout the process.
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She routinely deals with the most complex and sophisticated matters and is an incredibly strong negotiator and advocate who always achieves the best results for her clients.
Working with Jane was fantastic, I felt comfortable working with her and feel strongly that she did what was best for me as her client.
Jane is extremely experienced and not afraid to take on difficult cases and gets excellent results and her client care is superlative.
She is clear and open in her advice and will maintain the direction of forward travel for the client.

She is extremely experienced and handles a lot of big cases and gets good results, she has a strong established track record in these cases.
Karen is very approachable, down to earth and very good at building relationships with lawyers and experts, which means she'll explain things well to me.

Gemma Bedford is a managing associate, with experience handling claims stemming from negligently performed surgery, including those relating to informed consent. She also acts on birth and psychiatric injury claims.
She has a keen focus on client care and achieving results.
Gemma is a rising star.
She is thorough, diligent and hard-working. I enjoy working with her immensely.

Jessica Atkin is a senior associate assisting on a variety of clinical negligence claims. She regularly deals with neurological and maternal negligence claims and has experience assisting on group actions.
I felt very safe having her on my team. I know she worked hard with the express aim of getting me everything that I was due.




